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The music you're hearing right now is not an ordinary choir. It's a teenager in her bedroom singing into a laptop microphone. It's a grandparent performing while their grandchild helps with the camera.

And it's a businessman, reliving his years of choir in school.

What you're actually hearing are hundreds of individual voices performing both together

and alone. The result is mesmerizing and powerful and greater than the sum of its parts.

This performance is the first installment of what's known as the virtual choir.

It's a project that connects singers from around the world to create music.

The human voice is an instrument we're born with.

It doesn't cost anything, and we can use it to express all sorts of emotions and stories.

And if you sing with others, that expression can be amplified into something more.

But not everyone has the chance to do that.

Eric Whitaker had that in mind when he founded the virtual choir in the late 2000s.

I grew up in northern Nevada, and I really had no musical training. I definitely had an ear. I played piano, and my parents tried to give me piano lessons. They just wouldn't stick. I played trumpet in middle school and high school, but I never learned to read music. I would just play by ear. And then at 18, I went to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. And on a whim, I joined choir.

And on the very first day, I was standing with 100 other people in the room, and he said,

let's begin with the Requiem and the Curiae.

And I didn't know what a Requiem was.

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